Earth-worm vermin composts is gradually gaining popularity in Khulna to produce environment and health friendly organic vegetables. "Massive response from farmers including women in Khulna prompted us to gradually expand our fields to cultivate organic vegetables since we started yielding the chemical free vegetables several years ago," said Debprasad Sarkar, executive director of LOKOZ, a non government organization, in Khulna.
He said, they had made experimentally earth-worm vermin compost at village Gangarampur under Batiaghata upazila in Khulna in 2010 and since then farmers are using the compost. "We import earth-worm from Thailand first and started distributing among the male and female farmers through training. The compost made with earth-worm vermin is now used at every upazila in Khulna," he said. Department of upazila Agriculture Extension Office is providing earth- worm vermin compost to the farmers.
-BSS, Khulna
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